Tag Archives: Sewing

I started ‘visibly mending’ my sons trousers last year and used lovely bright patches and embroidery thread making a statement with each mend, rather than try to diguise the rips or tears. He often helped me pick the fabric and was always pleased with the efforts I made.

I’ve been a bit sewing mad recently. I blame it on the Great British Sewing Bee as that’s what got me back into sewing this year. That and a conversation with freinds on Facebook that led us to meet up every week and have a social sewing session. It’s been great fun and hopefully we […]

What am I getting myself into? A whole lot of fun with fabulous results hopefully. We’ve got a few chairs that have fabric that is past it’s best and I’ve been meaning to tackle them but up until no haven’t had the time or the fabric.